Anthony Scaramucci speaks to members of the media at the White House, July 25, 2017.

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Anthony Scaramucci, the crass New Yorker financier whose appointment as White House communications director prompted the resignation of press secretary Sean Spicer, was abruptly fired Monday after only 10 days on the job. The announcement was made just hours after former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was sworn in as chief of staff. “Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “We wish him all the best.”

It was a whirlwind week-and-a-half in the White House. Scaramucci’s sudden ouster comes just days after he threatened to “fire everybody” in the communications department, vowed to purge teh West Wing of leakers, and later unloaded on then-chief of staff Reince Priebus in an on-the-record interview with the New Yorker, calling him a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic.” Priebus was fired the very next day, making way for Kelly.

The Mooch, as he is widely known, was quick to assert his power in the scandal-ridden White House, making clear that he would report directly to the president, undercutting Priebus. He had planned to announce a new communications team on Monday afternoon, according to Politico, but was informed that morning that Kelly had requested his dismissal in conversations over the weekend. There was “no way” the two could work together, one senior aide told the outlet.

President Donald Trump’s family members and top advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner initially backed the decision to hire Scaramucci, reportedly seeing him as a way to dislodge Priebus, but they—along with Trump—quickly became disenchanted with the Mooch following his expletive-ridden conversation with the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza last week. Per The Washington Post:

People in the White House who supported Scaramucci's hiring had viewed his presence in the West Wing, in part, as a tool to hasten the departure of Priebus, according to White House officials. His usefulness had declined significantly in their eyes once that goal was accomplished and in light of his rocky first week on the job.

It is unclear as to whether the Mooch will remain in the employ of the president. Citing sources close to the president, The New York Timesreports that Scaramucci might land in a lower profile, less-public facing role within the Trump administration. And if there is one thing to learn from Corey Lewandowski, who was ousted as the president’s campaign manager last year, it is that Trump rewards loyalty—and that few people who Trump fires ever truly leave his orbit.

Whatever is next for the Mooch, his dismissal—and Kelly’s arrival—seem to mark the end of an era. By firing Scaramucci, Kelly sent a clear message that he would be imposing the order that was absent under Priebus, reinstating the traditional chain of command between the president and White House staffers, and restoring the office of the chief of staff to its rightful place as Oval Office gatekeeper. Still, Kelly’s success won’t be dependent solely on his ability to pacify the warring factions within Trump’s West Wing. He’ll also need the cooperation of the president, a man who is infamously averse to being being controlled or constrained.

Trump, for his part, had tweeted just hours earlier that there was “No WH chaos!” in his notoriously chaotic administration. As of Monday afternoon, he had yet to comment on the latest shakeup.